If SOP's are part of the TEM and the suggestion is to look at things and analyse -have i done everything-lets recheck etc, then surely it goes against the grain of having standard departure(emergency) briefs(sop's being part of TEM)
I have listened to briefs rattled off by both experienced and in-experienced pilots-iaw sop's.Is there any real understanding of what they have just said, or it just relaying ver batum the brief they have learnt because it is in the sops?The inference is that the sop's are right and if you stick by those then it will all be ok-WRONG.
Sop's in my mind are there as a guideline to keep everything standard-to reduce the posibilty of errors-dont get me wrong-i stongly believe in them, but i think too much emphasis is put on them, as to them being right.TEM is inferring that we question and re-question-to that end,this automotive rattling off and blindly following sop's has got to be wrong?!!!The cavait of deviating from sop's in the interest of safety would suggest that we just blindly accept that whoever wrote the sop's has got it right!
What i'm trying to say-probably not very well-is that TEM is about questioning/checking and then going over it all again(incorporating sop's,discipline,crm,planning etc)to reduce the errors creeping in and being able to recognise them, but it seems to be contradicted by falling into the trap of routine-beit briefs ,planning, sop's.
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chinny